Camisole lace fabric.



H. W. HUQKNALLL CAMISOLE LACE FABRIC.

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CAMISOLE LACE FABRIC.

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CAMISOLE LACE FABRIC.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Applicdt-ion filed December 5, 1917. Serial No. 205,544.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HAGE Wesson: Huan- NAnL, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of Elyria, in thecounty of Lorain and State 01?Ohio, have invented a new and.

Improved Camisole Lace Fabric, of which the following is a full, clear,and enact description.

This invention relates to a camisole and lace fabric for making thesame.

Heretofore camisoles have been made of a plurality of pieces which aresewed together. For instance, the body piece has sewed to the top andbottom edges strips of heading and a strip of edging on the lowerheading, and to the upper beading is sewed the shoulder strap pieces ofthe camisole. Because of this method of manufacture camisoles arehigh-priced and the demand is accordingly limited.

The object of the present invention is to provide a camisole fabricwhich is made of one piece of lace which is sold in strip form withcut-out portions along the top of the strip, whereby the remainingportions constitute shoulder straps, the corresponding ones of which aretied together by a bow, the strip including therefore the body, theheadings, der straps. In weavin the lace the web is of such width thatit includes a plurality of camisole strips which are cut and separatedand made up into bolts from which the camisole material is sold by theyard. As a result of this method of manufacture camisoles of very neatand attractive design can be made at very low cost compared with theformer method of making camisoles.

For a more complete understanding of the invention reference is to behad to the following description and claims taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings, which illustrate one embodiment of the inventionand wherein similar characters of reference indicate corresponding partsin all the views, in which-- Figure 1 is a plan view of a web of lace asit comes from the lace weaving machine, the web being composed of a purality of strips which are out along the dotted lines for the camisoleblanks;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of a complete camisole blank; and

Figs. 3 and 4 are views of the complete camisole shown applied to afigure.

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designates a portion of .a web of lace as it comes troni the laceweaving machine, the web-being composed of a plurality of strips 1, 2and 3, which are out or separated on the longitudinal lines 4, so thatthe strips will be just wideenough for the making of a camisole. Eachstrip comprises a body 5, upper and lower headings 6 and 7 and edging 8,and a shoulder strap section 9. The lace may be made according to anydesired design, but the portion 9 is preferably composed of diamond orequivalent repeats 10 which lend themselves more favorably for thecutting out of the shoulder stra members of the camisole. In Fig. 1 theongitudinal zigzag lines indicate the manner in which the portions 9 ofthe camisole strips are cut out to leave the shoulder strap members 11.The vertical dotted'lines 12 indicate where the strips are cuttransversel to produce the blanks of full length eac for a camisole. Itwill be noted that the two central shoulder strap members are arrangedclose together and these constitute back members, and the outer membersare separated by wide recesses 13, as clearly indicated in Fig. 2, fromthe inner members, and these outer members constitute the front portionsof the shoulder straps. These recesses 13 provide the armholes of thecamisole when the points or apices 14 of the corresponding front andrear shoulder strap members are fastened together, as for instance, by abow of ribbon 15, Figs. 3 and 4;. Draw strings 16 and 17 are assedthrough the upper and lower beadmgs' 6 and 7 and they serve to draw thecamlsole close around the body of the wearer in the usual manner.

It will be obvious that from a camisole strip as herein proposed thematerial can be bought at an ordinary dry goods store in the desiredlength, and the making of the camisole is a simple matter, since it onlyremains to tie the tips of the strap members properly together andinsert the draw strings.

From the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanyingdrawings the advantages of the construction and method of operation willbe readily understood by those skilled in the art to which the inventionappertains, and while I have described the principle of operation,together With the article which I now consider to be the best embodimentthereof, I desire to have it understood that the article shown is merelyillustrative and that such changes may be made when desired as fallWithin the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent:

1. A one-piece lace camisole comprising a body-encircling portion andtriangular shoulder straps, said shoulder straps being made of diamondrepeats so arranged that the outer edges of certain of the repeats formthe edges of the shoulder stra s.

2. A lace camisole comprising a ho y portion having integral shoulderstraps, said shoulder straps being entirely made up of repeats, and theedges of certain of the repeats forming the edges of the shoulder 20straps.

3. A seamless camisole comprising a body portion having shoulder straps,said body portion and shoulder straps being a singlepiece lace fabri andeach strap having a 25 plurality of designs the designs along the edgesof the shoulder straps having their outer edges coinciding with theshoulder strap edges.

4. A lace camisole comprising a seamless 30 Copies of this patent may beobtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,Washington, D. O.

